Who is a Natural Born Citizen of the United States of America
A "Natural born citizen" - the most crucial concept of the
moment in America - is confusing (and deliberately
confused). This
concept is used in the Constitution of the US
(Article II, Section 1, #4) as a precondition for
presidency - and only for
presidency, being clearly
distinguished from ordinary
citizenship. It has not been defined in the Constitution nor in
any later statutes,
because it had been self evident in the time when the Constitution was
written,
codified in the then contemporary encyclopedia "The
Law of
Nations"
(1758) by Emerich de Vattel. (As a legal source "Law of Nations" is
mentioned
in Article I, Section 8, #10 of the Constitution in respect to the
authority of
the US Congress to enforce the law of nations, in particular - against
piracies
and felonies on high seas).
According to Chapter
19,
§212 of "Law of Nations", "The natives, or natural-born
citizens, are those born in the country of parents who are citizens".
The concept "Natural born
citizen" is a twofold criterion meaning that:
In
other words, a natural born citizen means at least a second
generation citizen of the country. Vattel's own note on the margin of
his book refers to the Roman
law: NEMO PLUS JURIS
TRANSFERRE POTEST, QUAM IPSE HABET, meaning "No one can give more rights than he
himself has" (by Dr. A. Altec). Except for Obama/Soetoro, the Vattel
definition had been
always applied, the last
precedent being the US
Senate
resolution 511 in 2008 (also here
and here)
acknowledging Sen. McCain
as a natural born citizen.
Indeed, the goal of the Sen. Res. 511 was not to refresh the brain
dead America about the concept of the US Natural Born as defined in Law
of Nations by Vattel. Its goal was merely to justify campaigning of
McCain (which did not qualify because he was born in Panama rather than
in the canal zone). In doing so, the authors inadvertently revealed
what they knew and kept in mind - the two-fold requirement of the
definition of Vattel, though not mentioning it explicitly. (See below
how the US Congress had tried to rid of this Constitutional requirement
to presidency years prior to emergence of Obama).
Another indication to the meaning of the term may be found in the
Supreme Court's side definition of "natural
born citizen" as "all children
born in a country of parents who were its citizens" (Minor v.
Happersett, 88 U.S. 162, 1875).
Often "Natural born citizenship" is confused with
§1401 of the US Code "Nationals and citizens of United States at
birth". Although the words sound similar, §1401 defines only ordinary
citizenship including such shallow one as that of anchor babies (i.e.
born
to legal guests of the
country, §1401(a), never mind
illegal
residents).
The Constitution clearly and explicitly excludes ordinary
citizenship
for presidency: ordinary citizenship was reserved only for the
presidential candidates
- contemporaries of the Framers (referred as the grandfather clause).
Definitely the "Natural
born citizenship" is not the
same as ordinary citizenship, but
something stronger. By not explicitly quoting the Vattel's definition,
the Constitution therefore leaves some room for
confusions. (Many such confusions resulted of deliberate efforts of "progressives" to erode the
basic
constitutional concepts inconvenient for them).
Fortunately there exists (at least) one original US document directly
defining
the "Natural born citizenship" according to Emerich de Vattel. This
document (which does have legal binding) is the actual text of the
FIRST
CONGRESS in 1790 (see below).
Other arguments in favor of the definition of
Vattel are
the following. The Framers (in their correspondence) explicitly wished
to
exclude dual loyalty, and explicitly required that the US
citizenship
of the president be deeper than ordinary citizenship (such as that of
their
contemporaries). After all, any one can acquire an ordinary US
citizenship in
some point of one's life, so the Framers clearly excluded this kind of
citizenship. On the contrary, the Natural Born Citizenship cannot be
acquired:
it may be only inherited.
After the
Framers, all the
presidential contenders (up to Sen.
McCain in 2008 but not
Obama) did officially
satisfy this definition,
demonstrating
continuity of the meaning
"Natural born citizenship" consistent with
that of Vattel . (In the past only one
President
Chester Arthur 1881-1885 violated it, hiding and destroying the traces
of
the British citizenship of his father, discovered only after his death.
The carefully hidden violation of Chester Arthur in fact is an additional argument that the
Vattel's definition was valid
and he
was aware of it).
Not only did the continuity
and understanding of the Vattel meaning of the "Natural born citizenship" take place well
up to 2008: It was clearly disliked and stood on the way of some
planers long before emergence of Obama. Since 2002 some
members of the US Congress had made various attempts to rid of the
concept Natural Born Citizen, which all have
failed (here,
here,
here, and
here
- the research of J.B. Williams).
Here are the list of those attempts:
So finally in 2008 they simply violated the Constitutional
requirement, created the precedent and therefore de-facto have changed
the Constitution without any due constitutional process. It was "The
Audacity of Dope", rephrasing the notorious title.
In 2008 nobody even attempted to hide the foreign citizenship of Obama's biological father - an open into the face overt violation of the Constitution. Worse, no personal documents of Obama at all have been ever verified. The perpetrators and enablers have been the media, both big and all the small parties, plus the three branches of government, who overlooked and orchestrated ascendance of the impostor into the White House - while the majority of American people didn't care, were hoodwinked, or brain dead.
This brain dead
crowd still
maintains the consensus of silencing and suppression of the truth,
cheering the procession and wonderful clothes of the proverbial Emperor
without clothes,
while the cheer leaders keep an eye on those attempting to
speak out the
truth.
The former bright city on the hill turned into a despicable laughing
stock for the entire world;
Into a chess board with the checkmate situation, yet the winning side
refrained from checkmating;
Into a poker game with a brazen bluffer never demanded to open his
cards.
1) With only one parent American citizen (the mother) and the father -
a foreigner, Obama/Soetoro is definitely not a natural born citizen no
matter where he was born and what is in his hidden full birth
certificate.
2) His Indonesian upbringing
and citizenship
had abrogated his natural born American citizenship (if it were valid).
Getting back to
America he may become only a naturalized
citizen: definitely not natural born.
3) Obama's authentic birth certificate at best can only prove him to be
an ordinary U.S. citizen according
to §1401(a): definitely
not a natural born U.S. citizen. (Fixation on his hidden birth
certificate is misguiding, just like the pejorative term "birther",
invented
by those who want to deflect attention from the obvious issues lying on the very
surface and not requiring any birth certificate).
4) On the top of it, Obama is a plain fraudster . He had obtained
an
invalid Social Security number 042-68-4425, that he currently uses. It
was issued in the state of CT to an individual born in 1890. Obama
illegally assumed this number, as Dr. Taitz and her collaborators have
discovered. His
recently shown copy of the full birth certificate appeared to be a coarse
forgery. The head of the Hawaii department of Heals Ms. Loretta
Fuddy who provided Obama with this coarse forgery of the BC in 2011,
happened to be the only victim of a (staged?) plane crash on water who
died while nobody was even injured.
